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A thought arises by itself. Freedom begins where a person stops becoming every thought.
Formulas
Concise formulations: one thought — one precise strike.
First Line
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Power over oneself is not power over thoughts, but power over attention.
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We do not choose the first thought. But we can choose whether to feed it with attention.
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A thought one fights gains strength from the fight itself.
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Awareness begins not with silence in the head, but with the phrase: “I see that this thought has arisen.”
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Awareness without the body is a concept observing itself.
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The body speaks before the mind has time to invent an explanation.
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The body is the first door to oneself, but not the whole house.
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A person suffers not only from anxiety, but also from the demand not to be anxious.
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A pleasant state is not yet liberation. Sometimes it is simply well-tuned biochemistry.
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Practice becomes a trap when peace turns into a new master.
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Even a luminous experience must be observed, otherwise it quickly becomes a spiritual toy of the ego.
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The past inside a person exists not as fact, but as memory.
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A person often suffers not from the event, but from the version of the event he continues to carry within himself.
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Liberation is not a state that has finally arrived. It is the moment when the old version of oneself stops seeming like the only one.